Vulnerability

CVE-2023-52428

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CVSS Score 7.5 high

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400

References

https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/issues/526/
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-52428

[CVE-2023-52428] CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Description

In Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT before 9.37.2, an attacker can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large JWE p2c header value (aka iteration count) for the PasswordBasedDecrypter (PBKDF2) component.